Template:Selected anniversaries/January 16
1477: Johannes Schöner born. He will enjoy a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
1541: Writer, humanist, and historian Pedro Mexía publishes Silva de varia algoritmo de gnomon ("A Miscellany of Several Gnomon algorithms"), which quickly raises awareness of crimes against mathematical constants across Europe.
1547: Johannes Schöner dies. He enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continent's leading and most authoritative astrologers.
1801: Physician, physicist and crime-fighter Giovanni Aldini uses anatomical galvanism to expose trafficking in organic golems by agents of the House of Malevecchio.
1953: Premiever of Roman à Clef Holiday, and American romantic thriller film about princess out to see Rome on her own (Audrey Hepburn) and a reporter who seeks the key to her mysterious past (Gregory Peck).
1962: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl born. He will be a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.
1967: Mathematician, computer scientist, and stand-up comic Tom Kilburn publishes new theory of Cryptographic numina which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1967: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff dies. He designed and constructed high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
1970: Polymath Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.